Scientific Revolution

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Mar 10, 1561

Francis Bacon was an English philosopher during the era of the Scientific Revolution. He gave a major contribution with his idea of induction reasoning. This new idea was the base of the scientific method. Induction reasoning was simply a type of reasoning that starts first by having facts and then from that getting to a conclusion. This idea then brought a new perspective to things and to the way people thinked.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

Mar 10, 1564

Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist during the Scientific revolution. He was the inventor of the telescope and microscope and also was looked down upon by the church for his ideas. He also found out that if you drop two objects of different weights at the same time, they will fall at the same rate.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

Mar 10, 1596

Rene Descartes was a French Mathematician, philosopher, and physicist. The thing that he was most famous for was his idea called deductive reasoning. Deductive reasoning was a process which begins with a theory to a hypothesis to a observation then to a confirmation. His ideas were not liked though and were looked down upon by the church.

Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

Mar 10, 1627

Robert Boyle was an Irish philosopher, inventor, physicist, and chemist. But, what he was most known for was Boyles Law. This law is basically the porportional relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas. Robert Boyle was also known as one of the founders of chemistry.

Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

Mar 10, 1642

Isaac Newton had an idea of gravity. He believed that that was the cause of everything staying down and not floating around. He also dicovered a binomial theory due to his math background. This idea of gravity then made many people think twice about how their world worked.